The Scholemaster, or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without à Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer à sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin / By Roger Ascham.

Colophon: At London. Printed by John Daye dwellyng ouer Aldersgate. Cum gratia & Priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis. 1570.
Edited by author's wife, Margaret (Howe) Ascham; "preface" to Sir William Cecil.
Etching of a schoolmaster with whip pasted onto front endpaper.
Leaf 38 incorrectly numbered 42.
Manuscript ownership marks and annotations on title page and last printed page visible under ultraviolet light (available on request). Occasional marginal annotations in pencil.
Printer's mark on last page. Title within ornamental border; initials; tail-pieces.
Signatures :[A]² B-T⁴; Ciiii, Gii, and Jiii show faint imprint of inadequate inking of final "i."